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Patented Dec.- 17, 1889.

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GAME-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 417,528, dated December 17, 1889.

Application filed May 2, 1889. $erial No. 309,342; (No model.)

ing to be a full, clear, and exact description of;

the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part' of this specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in game-boards or puzzles; and it consists in providing a board or base of such a size that it can be readily handled with compartments having openings located near the outer edges or corners of the board, and centrally with four compartments having openings, barriers being located between the outer and inner compartments, said barriers having openings through which marbles or other spherical bodies may be passed by properly tilting and manipulating the board, the said board being adapted to be used with marbles of different kinds, colors, or indicating-marks.

The object of the toy is to place one of each special marble in the outer or corner compartments, while one or more of the same kind are placed in the central compartments, the compartments being colored or otherwise marked to indicate the color, class, or kind of marble to be moved therein, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan View of a game-board, puzzle, or toy constructed in accordance with my invention, the marbles being placed in their propercompartments. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section taken through the line as x of Fig. l.

The board or base F may be of any desired shape or configuration, and is provided with a flat upper surface, and to this board is attached a suitable outer edge or rim G, which forms an upright wall around the same to retain a cover having a downwardly-extending peripheral flange in place. Such a cover being of ordinary construction illustration of the same is deemed unnecessary.

To the four corners within the rim A are secured upright walls a, b, c, and d, having openings a b, c',and d,and from said openings are secured to the board F the barriers a, which are the segment of a circle.

Within the barriers to and a sufficient distance therefrom is a circular barrier 6, having an opening 6 formed therein. Semicircular barriers f are also secured to the board, openings f and f being located between the same, and within the barrier or raised wall f are barriers h, d, and j, which are almost the quarter of a circle, these barriers having openings g, h, t, and j between them. Within the last-mentioned barriers are formed compartments 70, Z, m, and n by barriers curved, .as shown, and connected at their ends to short posts or pins z, and also to the barriers g, 71,1, and j to form the compartments 7c, Z, m, and 'n, and the passage-ways 10', l, m, and n.

The space formed at the center of the board by the side walls or barriers of the compartments may be covered by a circular piece of board (referred to by the letter 6) supported on legs 0.

Each of the compartments k, I, 'm, and it may be colored differently or have indicatingmarks corresponding with the color or indicating-marks of the compartments a, b, c, and d, and the marbles used in connection with the board may be suitably marked to correspond therewith.

A, B, O, and D refer to marbles used in playing the game, and marbles A, B, O, and D, of a smaller size, are also used, they being colored or marked to correspond with' the marbles A, B, O, and D.

In playing the game the marbles A, B, C, and D may represent cowboys or cattledrivers, and the marbles A, B, C, and D, the cattle, and the last-mentioned marbles may be of different sizes. The object of the game is to get the cattle or marbles within the compartments 70, Z, m, and n, which may be termed pens, and also have the marbles A, B, O, and D in their proper compartments, which can be done by proper manipulation of the board IOC I am aware that prior to my invention gameboards have been constructed having barriers arranged in the arc of a circle, openings being formed between said barriers, as shown in United States patent to Reidenger, No. 160,234. I am also aware that British patent dated January 24, 1867, and numbered 180, shows barriers and a central space; but said barriers are not provided with Openings through which the marbles or objects used can he passed.

I do not wish to be understood as claiming, broadly, the construction known as pigs in clover puzzle, consisting of a game-board adapted to be held in the hand, provided with a peripheral ring and several concentric circular barriers, each of which is provided with an opening, the openings of the several barriers being out of line with each other or alternately 011 opposite sides, as the same is not my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The herein-described toy, consisting of the board having flanges or sides surrounding the same, pockets arranged at diametrically-opposite points, each pocket having an opening therein, and a central series of pockets, also having openings, both the outer and central pockets being dilferen tly marked, and a series of balls equal to or exceeding the number of pockets, each ball having a mark corresponding to that of a certain pocket, substantially as set forth.

2. The herein-described toy, consisting of the board having flanges or sides surrounding the same, pockets arranged at diametrically-opposite points, each pocket having an opening therein, and a central series of pockets, also having openings, both the outer and central pockets being differently marked, and a series of balls equal to or exceeding the number of pockets, each ball having a mark corresponding to that of a certain pocket, and intermediate vertical curved barriers interposed between the central and outer pockets and having their openings out of line relative to those of said pockets, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

OSCAR \VEAVER. Witnesses:

HUGH MOORE, JOHN A. GUTMANN. 

